How to Use absenteeism in a Sentence

absenteeism

noun
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  • Take a look at your rates for turnover, absenteeism and LTA.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • And Ohio records of absenteeism at schools for the past few years show parents did.
    — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Half of the achievement gap can be traced to absenteeism, Smith said.
    — Geri Stengel, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • And the rise in chronic absenteeism is indeed a sign that schools need help.
    — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The initiative aims to cut absenteeism in half at Ohio schools over the next 10 years.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 30 Apr. 2021
  • That often means absenteeism — and in the near and long term, failure.
    — Kat Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2023
  • But the Supreme Court’s absenteeism on gun rights has left other judges in charge.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Chronic absenteeism, where students miss more than 10% of school days, is on the rise.
    — Nadia Scharf, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The study also concluded that the rate of student absenteeism was about the same in four-day and five-day week schools.
    — Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Still, the chronic absenteeism trends were most profound in high school.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The low turnout is a part of a larger chronic absenteeism problem that's plagued the district for over a decade.
    — Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Parents have up to six times less absenteeism from work.
    — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 27 Dec. 2020
  • The rate of absenteeism during the span has been the highest since the pandemic began.
    — Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Petersburg schools are some of the most trouble-plagued in the state, with 2½ times the state’s average for absenteeism.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The initial pilot schools have some of the highest chronic absenteeism rates in the district.
    — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The district had a 53% chronic absenteeism rate, which rose since the previous school year and is worse for Black students.
    — The Enquirer, 15 Sep. 2022
  • In some places, like Colorado and Oregon, the rates of chronic absenteeism are even higher.
    — Leigh Paterson, NPR, 18 May 2024
  • Over time, that will harm their health and well-being, causing more illness, absenteeism, and burnout.
    — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
  • There’s a whole host of things that are happening there: illness and injury, absenteeism, turnover, worker’s comp and on and on and on.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Farley didn't say why Ford would see a spike in absenteeism but not its competitors.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Covid-19 has made in-person work riskier while vacancies and absenteeism have raised the burden on those who show up.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Last school year, the state’s students had an average chronic absenteeism rate of 23.7%.
    — USA Today, 12 June 2023
  • Chronic absenteeism surged, with the number of students missing 10 percent of the school year more than doubling.
    — Christopher Huffaker, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2022
  • In Chicago, the rate of absenteeism stood at about 15 percent before winter break, but around a third of students stayed home on the first day of the new semester.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Rates of absenteeism can be hard to compare nationally because schools do not report the data in the same way, nor on the same timetable.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Word of the infection spread quickly to Century, where absenteeism in April hit 15%, about three times the usual rate.
    — Bob Davis, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Chronic absenteeism had been stable at a lower rate for many years.
    — Jazmine Heredia, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024
  • But experts say more is needed if districts want to curb absenteeism.
    — Faimon Roberts, NOLA.com, 21 Nov. 2020
  • The classes are so popular that absenteeism drops to virtually nil on the days they are held.
    — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 17 May 2022
  • More:Anxiety, illness, missing the bus: all can lead to chronic absenteeism.
    — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2024

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